Reaction chamber including a susceptor having draining openings for manufacturing a silicon carbide wafer

ABSTRACT

An embodiment described herein includes a method for producing a wafer of a first semiconductor material. Said first semiconductor material has a first melting temperature. The method comprises providing a crystalline substrate of a second semiconductor material having a second melting temperature lower than the first melting temperature, and exposing the crystalline substrate to a flow of first material precursors for forming a first layer of the first material on the substrate. The method further comprising bringing the crystalline substrate to a first process temperature higher than the second melting temperature, and at the same time lower than the first melting temperature, in such a way the second material melts, separating the second melted material from the first layer, and exposing the first layer to the flow of the first material precursor for forming a second layer of the first material on the first layer.

BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

1. Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the electronics sector. More indetail, the present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing asemiconductor material wafer.

2. Description of the Related Art

A semiconductor electronic device, either an Integrated Circuit (IC) ora power device, is a circuit whose components are directly fabricated ina semiconductor material substrate. The substrates of the great majorityof the ICs presently available on the market are obtained from silicon(Si) wafers.

Recently, silicon carbide (SiC) wafers have been developed. Compared tosilicon, silicon carbide has different chemical-physical properties, atleast in part due to the different band gap value (indeed, siliconcarbide has a band gap higher than that of silicon). For example,silicon carbide has a breaking voltage higher than that of the silicon,and it is thus an optimal material for manufacturing electronic devicesfor power applications, since a wafer (and, thus, a substrate for an IC)formed in silicon carbide is capable of managing voltages of relativelyhigh values even with a relatively thin thickness. Moreover, using asilicon carbide wafer is particularly advantageous in all the electronicfields requiring the managing of high frequency signals.

Silicon wafers are typically formed in pure monocrystalline silicon. Aknown manufacturing process for generating wafers of this type is theso-called “Czochralski growth process”, which provides for introducing amonocrystalline silicon seed within a mass of melted silicon, and thegradual extraction of the seed from the melted silicon together with aslow rotation of the seed itself.

The presently employed techniques for growing a silicon carbide crystalare very complex and expensive. Because of its peculiar physicalfeatures, a silicon carbide wafer cannot be manufactured with themethods used for manufacturing silicon wafers. Since silicon carbide isa material which directly passes (sublimates) from the solid phase tothe vapour phase, without passing from any liquid phase, the Czochralskigrowth process cannot be used, since this latter process just requiresthat the seed is inserted in a melting of the desired material.

Silicon carbide may occur in a number of different chrystallographicstructures (polytypes). Among the number of polytypes, the most commonare the cubic polytype (3C polytype), the hexagonal polytype (4H and 6Hpolytypes), and the rhombohedric polytype (15R polytype). Presently, bycomplex and expensive processes it is possible to manufacture siliconcarbide wafers of the 4H and 6H polytypes having diameters not higherthan four inches starting from the corresponding crystal obtained by asublimation process. Such processes provides for cutting the ingot inslices, lapping, polishing of one of the two faces and then epitaxialgrowth.

BRIEF SUMMARY

Being not possible to use the Czochralski growth process formanufacturing silicon carbide wafer, a possible solution for the 3Cpolytype (briefly, 3C SiC), may provide for using epitaxial growthtechniques. As it is known to the skilled technicians, with epitaxialgrowth it is intended a method which provides for the deposition of thinlayers of material on a crystalline substrate, which addresses itsgrowing and determinates its structural properties. However, with thepresently available technologies it is very difficult obtaining a 3C SiCcrystal to be used as a crystalline substrate for a subsequent epitaxialgrowth. In order to solve this problem, some known solutions provide forthe growing of a 3C SiC layer by a heteroepitaxial process starting froma silicon substrate. However, such known solutions only allow thegrowing of layers having very thin thickness (lower than a micron) orscarce quality (high defectiveness).

This above mentioned drawbacks do not affect the 3C SiC case only, butalso other materials for which it is difficult to grow a crystal to beused as substrate for a subsequent epitaxial growth, such as for examplethe Gallium Nitride (GaN).

Today, the presently available solutions do not allow to produce wafersof 3C polytype silicon carbide (and of equivalent materials) having asufficiently high quality for the implementation of devices.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a possiblesolution of the drawbacks which affects the presently used growingprocesses, provides for the deposition of a first layer of the desiredmaterial on a crystalline substrate having a lower melting temperature,the subsequent elimination of the substrate by the melting, and thedeposition of a second layer of the desired material on the first layer.

A first aspect according to an embodiment of the present disclosurerelates to a method for producing a wafer of a first semiconductormaterial. Said first semiconductor material has a first meltingtemperature. The method comprises providing a crystalline substrate of asecond semiconductor material having a second melting temperature lowerthan the first melting temperature, and exposing the crystallinesubstrate to a flow of first material precursors for forming a firstlayer of the first material on the substrate. The method furthercomprising bringing the crystalline substrate to a first processtemperature higher than the second melting temperature, and at the sametime lower than the first melting temperature, in such a way the secondmaterial melts, separating the second melted material from the firstlayer, and exposing the first layer to the flow of the first materialprecursor for forming a second layer of the first material on the firstlayer.

In this way it is possible to obtain material wafers with a singleprocess, eliminating some of the process phases of the known solutionspresently in use (among which cutting of the crystal in slices, lappingand polishing).

Another aspect according to an embodiment of the present disclosurerelates to a reaction chamber for producing a semiconductor materialwafer. Such reaction chamber comprises a susceptor, heating means forheating the susceptor, and conduction means for providing a precursorsflow. Said susceptor comprises a plurality of draining openings adaptedto make melted material generated during the manufacturing of thesemiconductor material wafer flowing out from the susceptor.

A further aspect of the present disclosure relates to a semiconductormaterial wafer.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 schematically illustrates in a sectional view, a horizontalreaction chamber according to a known solution;

FIG. 2 schematically illustrates in a sectional view, a verticalreaction chamber according to a known solution;

FIG. 3A is a view from above a susceptor adapted to be employed in thereaction chamber of FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 3B is a sectional view of the susceptor of FIG. 3A taken along asectional plan perpendicular to the surface of the susceptor;

FIG. 4A is a view from above a susceptor adapted to be employed in thereaction chamber of FIG. 1 according to a further embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 4B is a sectional view of the susceptor of claim 4A taken along asectional plan perpendicular to the surface of the susceptor;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a reaction chamber according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 illustrates a possible thermal profile of the reaction chamber ofFIG. 5 during phases of a method for producing a semiconductor materialwafer according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 7A-7D are sectional view of a semiconductor material wafer duringsome steps of the realization method according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B are sectional view of a mobile gathering tankaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9A and FIG. 9B are sectional view of a mobile gathering tankaccording to a further embodiment of the present disclosure, and

FIG. 10A and FIG. 10B are sectional view of a moving device of thegathering tank of FIGS. 9A and 9B according to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present detailed description refers to a method for manufacturing a3C SiC wafer by means of a Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) hetero-homoepitaxial growing process starting from a silicon substrate, and to acorresponding reaction chamber wherein carrying out such method.

FIG. 1 schematically illustrates by means of a sectional view a reactionchamber 100 wherein the concepts of the present disclosure may beapplied.

Without descending into specific details which are outside the purposeof the present document, the reaction chamber 100 comprises a hollowbody 103 formed in an insulating material, adapted to thermally insulatethe inner cavity from the external environment. The reaction chamber 100comprises a support 105 (also referred to as a “susceptor”) adapted tosustain the crystalline substrate 102 on which a 3C SiC layer isepitaxially grown, as will be described in detail in the following ofthe present description. The susceptor 105 is a substantially flatelement, for example having a circular shape, implemented in a materialhaving a high melting temperature, such as for example naked graphitehaving a high degree of pureness and a high dilatation coefficient. Thereaction chamber comprises a heating device 110 configured to heat thesusceptor 105. For example, the heating device 110 may be of theinductive type, comprising coils, or of the resistive type, comprisingcarbide covered resistors.

As it is known to those skilled in the art, the deposition processprovides that the substrate 102, supported and heated by the susceptor105, is invested by a gas flow that carries—in gaseous form—theparticles of the material to be deposited on the substrate 102 itself;that is, the gas flow comprising particles of a material to be deposedis identified as “precursor” of the material itself. An input duct 115is provided for inputting the precursors within the reaction chamber100, and an output duct 120 is provided for discharging the reactiongases outside the reaction chamber 100.

In the reaction chamber 100 illustrated in FIG. 1, the input duct 115and the output duct 120 are arranged in such a way that the precursorflow hits the substrate 102 longitudinally to the main surface of thesubstrate 102 itself. A reaction chamber of this type is referred to ashorizontal flux reaction chamber.

The concepts of the present disclosure may be however applied tovertical flux reaction chambers, wherein the input duct and the outputduct are arranged in such a way that the precursor flow hits thesubstrate transversally to the main surface of the substrate itself, andwherein the heating element is of the induction type. A possible exampleof a reaction chamber of this type is illustrated in FIG. 2.

As will be described in detail in the following of the presentdisclosure, the method according to an embodiment of the presentdisclosure provides that from the wafer in process melted material isgenerated, which melted material requires to be drained and collected,for being removed in a second time. For this reason, according to anembodiment of the present disclosure, the susceptor is provided withdraining openings for the flowing out of the melted material.

FIG. 3A is a view from above a susceptor 200 according to an embodimentof the present disclosure; FIG. 3B is a sectional view of the susceptor200 of FIG. 3A taken along a sectional plane perpendicular to thesurface of the susceptor 200 and passing from the line II-II. Accordingto such embodiment, the susceptor 200 comprises a plurality of circulardraining openings, identified in FIGS. 3A and 3B with the reference 205,uniformly arranged along the susceptor surface 205. As visible in FIG.3B, in the considered embodiment the draining openings are shapedaccording to a “funnel” shape, with a beginning cone-shaped portion anda terminating cylindrical portion.

FIG. 4A is a view from above another susceptor 200′ according to afurther embodiment of the present disclosure; FIG. 4B is a sectionalview of the susceptor 200′ of FIG. 4A taken along a sectional planeperpendicular to the surface of the susceptor 200′ and passing from theline III-III. According to such embodiment, the susceptor 200′ comprisesa plurality of draining openings substantially having a slit shape,identified in FIGS. 4A and 4B with the reference 305, in such a way todefine a substantially grid structure on the surface of the susceptor.

Naturally, the susceptors 200, 200′ illustrated in FIGS. 3A, 3B, 4A and4B are to be considered only for exemplificative and non (imitativepurposes, since the concepts of the present disclosure may be applied tosusceptors having draining openings having different shapes andarrangements (e.g., having a polygonal shape).

Making reference to FIG. 5, a susceptor according to the presentdisclosure—i.e., provided with draining openings—is located within thereaction chamber 100 on a support comprising a gathering tank 125 (forexample, in graphite). In the illustrated example, the employedsusceptor is the susceptor 200 of FIGS. 3A and 3B, provided withcircular openings. However, it is underlined that same considerationsapply to susceptors provided with draining openings having a differentshape, such as the slit draining openings of the susceptor 200′ of FIGS.4A and 4B.

A method for manufacturing a 3C SiC wafer which exploits the reactionchamber 100 (indifferently, at horizontal or vertical flow) equippedwith the susceptor 200 provided with draining openings according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

During the manufacturing of the 3C SiC wafer, the temperature of thereaction chamber 100—and in particular of the susceptor 200—is varied byproperly driving the heating devices 110; to this end, FIG. 6illustrates a possible thermal profile 400 of the reaction chamber 100during the various phases of the method according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

PHASE 1: The reaction chamber 100 is at the room temperature. A siliconcrystalline substrate 102, for example of the (100) type, is positionedon the susceptor 200, A situation of this type is shown in FIG. 7A.

PHASE 2: The heating devices 110 are activated for rising thetemperature of the reaction chamber 100 until reaching a temperatureequal to about 1000-1100° C. The ducts 115 and 120 are opened forimmersing the substrate 102 in a hydrogen flow.

PHASE 3: The temperature is kept at the same value reached in theprevious phase. The surface of the substrate 102 is subjected toactivation operations, for example by H₂, HCl and deposition of siliconbuffer.

PHASE 4: The temperature of the reaction chamber 100 is risen untilabout 1330-1380° C. A carbon precursor is added to the hydrogen flow, inorder to carbonise the superficial silicon atoms of the substrate 102,and obtaining a thin layer, of the order of few nanometers, of SiC (injargon, “ramp carbonisation”). Such thin layer of silicon carbide hasthe purpose of acting as a seed for the SiC growth which will be carriedout in the following phase.

PHASE 5: Keeping the temperature of the reaction chamber 100 at about1330-1380° C., a silicon precursor is added to the carbon precursor. Inthis way, a 3C SiC layer is caused to grow from the thin layerpreviously generated (epitaxial grow). Since the silicon of thesubstrate has a reticule that is different than the silicon carbide ofthe growing layer (5.43 angstroms for the silicon and 4.36 angstroms forthe silicon carbide), the more the 3C SiC layer grows, the more thesemiconductor wafer tends to warp. Although a semiconductor materialwafer having an excessive warping cannot be used for integratingelectronic devices, since the integration operations request the use ofsufficiently planar wafers, this phase is however made to last a timesufficient to grow a 3C SiC layer having a thickness of some tents ofmicrons (for example, 30-40 microns), causing a non negligible warping.A situation of this type is illustrated in FIG. 7B, wherein the 3C SiClayer is identified with the reference 510. The drawback of theexcessive wafer warping is resolved according to one embodiment of thepresent disclosure in the following phases of the method which will benow described.

PHASE 6: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, thetemperature of the reaction chamber 100 is risen until reaching atemperature higher than the melting temperature of the silicon, and atthe same time lower than the melting temperature of the 3C SiC. Forexample, the reaction chamber 100 is brought to a temperature of about1450-1460° C.

PHASE 7: The reaction chamber 100 is kept at the temperature justreached, while the precursor flow (silicon and carbon) is kept constantwith respect to the preceding phases. In this way, while the 3C SiClayer 510 continues to grow in thickness, since supplied by theprecursors of the silicon and of the carbon, the underneath siliconsubstrate 102 starts to melt, and in the melted state passes through thedraining openings of the susceptor 200, for being collected in theunderneath gathering tank 125. With the melting, and the passage in theunderneath gathering tank 125, of an ever increasing portion of thesubstrate 102, the warping affecting the wafer tends to diminish, beingthe wafer made up more and more by silicon carbide and less and less bysilicon. The duration of this phase is set in such a way to allow themelting and the separation of (substantially) all the silicon of thesubstrate 102. In this situation, illustrated in FIG. 7C, the resultingsemiconductor material wafer located on the susceptor 200—globallyidentified in the figure with the reference 515—results from beingformed by the 3C SiC layer 510; the silicon collected by the gatheringtank 125 after the melting of the substrate 102 is identified in thefigure with the reference 520. With the reticular discontinuity at theinterface Si—SiC no longer being present, the SiC layer 515 becomesplanar. Growing a 3C SiC layer 510 of sufficiently high thickness (30-40microns, see PHASE 5) before raising the temperature above the meltingpoint of the silicon is advantageous, since said SiC layer should becapable of remaining integral even without the underneath siliconsubstrate 102. With a 3C SiC 510 layer being thin, the wafer 515 wouldrisk breakage due to the silicon melting.

PHASE 8: Continuing to supply the reaction chamber with the precursorflow, the thickness of the 3C SiC layer 510 (and, thus, of the SiC layer515) continues to grow. When the thickness has reached a sufficientlyhigh level (for example about 100 microns), the temperature of thereaction chamber 100 is brought again to a value lower than the meltingtemperature of the silicon, for example at about 1370° C. In this way,the melted silicon 520 collected in the gathering tank 125 firms up.

PHASE 9: Keeping the reaction chamber 100 at the temperature reached inPHASE 8, and continuing to constantly provide the flow of silicon andcarbon precursors, a further layer of 3C SiC, identified in FIG. 7D withthe reference 530, is grown on the layer 510 of SiC, having desiredthickness and resistivity. Unlike the preceding phases, wherein thegrowing was of the heteroepitaxial type—indeed, other than the SiC layer510 the silicon substrate 102 was present—, the growing of the layer 530results to be of the homoepitaxial type, since the wafer 515 results tobe exclusively formed by SiC. During this phase, it is further possibleto input in the chamber—together with the silicon and carbonprecursors—doping elements for varying the resistivity of the layer 530.The portion of the wafer 515 corresponding to the layer 530 may be thusused as an active zone wherein forming the electronic devices. Forexample, for dopings of the N type it is possible to add nitrogen, whilefor dopings of the P type it is possible to add aluminium, for examplein form of an organometallic compounds (trimethylaluminium).

PHASE 10: Having reached the desired thickness of the SiC layer, thetemperature of the reaction chamber 100 is taken back to the roomtemperature, and the precursors flow is interrupted.

At the end of the last phase of the method according to the disclosure,a wafer 515 of 3C SiC is obtained as final product, having the desiredthickness and resistivity and a good planarity degree, and a mass ofpolycrystalline silicon as waste product.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the 3C SiCwafer fabrication method above described may be optimised using areaction chamber with a mobile gathering tank, adapted to pass inparticular phases of the growing process from a first configuration,wherein the tank is in contact with the susceptor and forms therewith asingle body, to a second configuration, wherein the tank and thesusceptor are separated, and vice versa.

FIG. 8A is a sectional view of a mobile gathering tank according to anembodiment of the present disclosure, identified with the reference 605,in the first configuration, while FIG. 8B is a sectional view of thesame mobile gathering tank 605 in the second configuration. According toan embodiment of the present disclosure, the mobile gathering tank 605comprises a plurality of protruding elements 610 that protrude from thebottom of the tank itself; each protruding element 610 is adapted toengage a respective draining opening of the susceptor 200 when themobile gathering tank 605 is in the first configuration. As visible inFIG. 8A, when the mobile gathering tank 605 is in the firstconfiguration, the draining openings of the susceptor 200 are closed; inthis configuration, the gathering of melted material in the tank isprevented, allowing, in some phases of the wafer manufacturing method,the coexistence of the 3C SiC solid mass in contact with the liquid massof the melted Si. The mobile gathering tank 605 is configured to bemoved perpendicularly to the susceptor surface 200 in such a way todisengage the protruding elements 610 from the respective drainingopenings of the susceptor 200. In this configuration, visible in FIG.8B, the draining openings of the susceptor are open, allowing thus thegathering of melted material in the tank.

As already mentioned, the mobile gathering tank 605 may beadvantageously employed for optimising the method previously described.Such optimisation provides for performing the previously describedmethod until the phase wherein the temperature is risen above thesilicon melting temperature (PHASE 6) with the mobile gathering tank 605kept in the first configuration (draining openings closed). Since thedraining openings of the susceptors 200 are closed, the melted Si whichis produced because of the high temperature cannot flow out. The mobilegathering tank 605 is kept in the first configuration during all the SiCdeposition phase; in this way, a more uniform heat distribution occursbetween the wafer and the susceptor, and the solid mass of SiC is incontact with the melted mass of Si during the whole SiC depositionphase. Once the desired SiC thickness is reached, always keeping thetemperature of the reaction chamber at the temperature reached in theprevious phase, the mobile gathering tank 605 is lowered and brought inthe second configuration, in such a way to free the draining openings ofthe susceptor 200; at the same time, the reaction chamber is broughtback to the room temperature. In this way, the melted silicon flows inthe mobile gathering tank 605 passing through the draining openings.Unlike the preceding case (fixed gathering tank), wherein the separationbetween Si and SiC was only caused by the rising of the chambertemperature above the melting temperature, in this case the separationis further favoured by the dragging mechanical action of the meltedsilicon toward the bottom caused by the lowering of the mobile gatheringtank 605.

FIG. 9A and FIG. 9B show a mobile gathering tank 705 according to afurther embodiment of the present disclosure, wherein the mobilegathering tank 705 has the bottom voids of protruding elements. FIG. 9Ais a sectional view of the mobile gathering tank 705 in the firstconfiguration, while FIG. 9B is a sectional view of the mobile gatheringtank 705 in the second configuration. Even according to such embodiment,in the first configuration the draining openings of the susceptors 200results to be closed, preventing the gathering of melted material in thetank, while in the second configuration the draining openings of thesusceptors results to be open, allowing the gathering of melted materialin the tank. The mobile gathering tank 705 may be employed in the sameway as the mobile gathering tank 605.

A possible implementation of a moving device adapted to vertically movea mobile gathering tank according to the present disclosure (forexample, the mobile gathering tank 705 voids of protruding elements) isillustrated in FIGS. 10A and 10B. FIG. 10A is a sectional view of thebundle susceptor-tank-moving device when the mobile gathering tank 705is in the first configuration, while FIG. 10B is a sectional view of thebundle susceptor-tank-moving device when the mobile gathering tank 705is in the second configuration. According to an embodiment of thepresent disclosure, the moving device comprises a container element (forexample implemented in CalCarb® material) 805 adapted to accommodate themobile gathering tank 705; the container element 805 is connected to avertical support element 810 adapted to be translated (together with thecontainer element 805 and the mobile gathering tank 705 housed therein)along a direction perpendicular to the susceptor 200 surface bymechanical moving devices, such as a cam element 815. According to anembodiment of the present disclosure, suspension elements 820 areprovided for keeping the susceptor 200 in a position which is separatedfrom the mobile gathering tank 705 when the latter is in the secondconfiguration. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, thesuspension elements 820 are vertical elements configured to mechanicalengage a corresponding protruding lateral support element 825 providedon a corresponding lateral side of the susceptor 200. When the mobilegathering tank 705 is in the first configuration, the susceptor 200 issupported by the bottom of the mobile gathering tank 705, with theprotruding elements 825 which are disengaged from the suspensionelements 820, since the formers are located in a position higher thanthe latter. In order to pass to the second configuration, the camelement 815 is rotated, in such a way that the vertical support element810 and the container element 805 translate toward the bottom. Bytranslating, the container element 805 brings therewith (toward thebottom) the mobile gathering tank 705 and the susceptor 200 as well.During the translation toward the bottom of the container element 805,at a certain point the lateral support elements 825 engage thecorresponding suspension elements 820. Consequently, while the mobiletank 705 proceeds in the descent together with the container element805, the susceptor 200 separates therefrom, remaining bound to thesuspension elements 820 in a suspended position.

Although in the present description it has been largely discussed amethod for producing 3C SiC wafers starting from a Si substrate, theconcepts of the present disclosure (included the use of susceptorsprovided with draining openings and/or the use of mobile gatheringtanks) may be applied to all those heteroepitaxiable semiconductormaterials having a melting temperature higher than that of the materialforming the substrate (for example, different from Si).

The various embodiments described above can be combined to providefurther embodiments. These and other changes can be made to theembodiments in light of the above-detailed description. In general, inthe following claims, the terms used should not be construed to limitthe claims to the specific embodiments disclosed in the specificationand the claims, but should be construed to include all possibleembodiments along with the full scope of equivalents to which suchclaims are entitled. Accordingly, the claims are not limited by thedisclosure.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A reaction chamber for manufacturing asemiconductor material wafer, the reaction chamber comprising: aplatform having sidewalls; a gathering tank positioned on the platformand between the sidewalls, the gathering tank having a plurality ofprotruding elements; a susceptor having a plurality of draining openingsthat remain open to receive melted material to flow therethrough and into the gathering tank, the plurality of protruding elements configuredto engage the plurality of draining openings; heating means for heatingthe susceptor and to cause the material to melt; and conduction meansfor providing a precursors flow.
 2. The reaction chamber according toclaim 1, wherein said susceptor and said gathering tank includegraphite.
 3. The reaction chamber according to claim 1, wherein saidgathering tank is configured to move from a first configuration, whereinthe tank is in contact with the susceptor and forms therewith a singlebody, to a second configuration, wherein the tank and the susceptor aredetached, and vice versa.
 4. The reaction chamber according to claim 3,wherein the gathering tank is configured to close said draining openingsand impede the flow of the melted material when the gathering tank is inthe first configuration, so to allow the coexistence of the meltedmaterial in contact with the semiconductor material wafer.
 5. Thereaction chamber according to claim 4, wherein the plurality ofprotruding elements engage the draining openings of the susceptor whenthe gathering tank is in the first configuration.
 6. A reaction chambercomprising: a susceptor having a plurality of draining openings thatremain open to allow melted material to flow therethrough; a gatheringtank having sidewalls and a bottom surface configured to gather themelted material that flows through the draining openings of thesusceptor, the gathering tank having a plurality of protruding elementson the bottom surface configured to plug the plurality of drainingopenings of the susceptor; a heater configured to heat the susceptor andto cause the material to melt; an input duct configured to inputprecursors; and an output duct configured to output reaction gases. 7.The reaction chamber according to claim 6, wherein said gathering tankis configured to move between a first configuration, wherein the tank isin contact with the susceptor, and a second configuration, wherein thetank and the susceptor are detached.
 8. The reaction chamber accordingto claim 6, wherein said susceptor and said gathering tank includegraphite.
 9. A reaction chamber, comprising: a first platform positionedinside of the reaction chamber, the platform having lateral supports, acenter portion, and a plurality of apertures in the center portion; asecond platform underlying the first platform; a third platformunderlying the second platform, the third platform having sidewalls; aheater configured to heat the first platform; and a receptaclepositioned on the second platform and below the first platform, thesecond platform configured to move the receptacle to a first positionand a second position, the receptacle abutting the center portion of thefirst platform in the first position, the receptacle being spaced fromthe center portion of the first platform and the lateral supportsresting on the sidewalls of the third platform in the second position.10. The reaction chamber of claim 9, wherein the receptacle isconfigured to collect and hold material that flows through the pluralityof apertures.
 11. The reaction chamber of claim 9, wherein thereceptacle includes a plurality of protruding elements, the protrudingelements being inserted in to the plurality of apertures while thereceptacle is in the first position.
 12. The reaction chamber of claim9, wherein the second platform includes sidewalls, the receptaclepositioned between the sidewalls of the second platform.
 13. Thereaction chamber of claim 9, wherein the second platform includes avertical support that extends through the third platform.
 14. Thereaction chamber according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of drainingopenings are a plurality of slits extending in the same direction. 15.The reaction chamber according to claim 1, wherein the plurality ofdraining openings are arranged in a plurality of rows.
 16. The reactionchamber according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of draining openingsare a plurality of slits extending in the same direction.
 17. Thereaction chamber according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of drainingopenings are arranged in a plurality of rows.